“The possibilities of collision on any of the three future flyby dates are far too small to be of any real concern,” said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Center for near earth orbit studies .

“I fully expect any future observations to reduce the probability even more.”

Late last night, NASA published a tweet in which it claimed that Earth would be safe from this asteroid for at least the next century.

However, astronomers cannot precisely predict its movements and have given it a “condition code” of eight out of a possible 10, which means they cannot accurately predict its movements.

Experts cannot say for sure whether the space rock will zoom by at the terrifyingly close distance of 11,000 miles – or fly wide of the planet by 1.3 million miles.

“This asteroid’s orbit is quite uncertain, and it will be hard to predict where to look for it,” Chodas added.

“There is a chance that the asteroid will be picked up by our asteroid search telescopes when it safely flies past us next month, providing us with data to more precisely define its orbit around the sun.”

The asteroid has become something of an internet star, with one joker giving the space rock its very own Twitter feed.

It has also become the subject of a number of bizarre theories suggesting the world is about to end.